{"id":497834,"date":"2026-01-16T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ozama-floating-bridge-to-close-this-saturday-for-vessel-passage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:26:31","slug":"ozama-floating-bridge-to-close-this-saturday-for-vessel-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/ozama-floating-bridge-to-close-this-saturday-for-vessel-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozama Floating Bridge to close this Saturday for vessel passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC)<\/strong> announced that this Saturday, January 17, the Floating Bridge over the <strong>Ozama<\/strong> river will be temporarily closed from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., due to the passage of a vessel.\n\nDuring that period, vehicular traffic will be completely suspended, so the authorities recommended that drivers take alternate routes to avoid congestion.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/transporte-publico-registra-baja\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"585996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public transport registers low influx due to Christmas &#8220;bridge&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAs optional routes, those traveling between Santo Domingo and Villa Duarte, or vice versa, can use the Mat\u00edas Ram\u00f3n Mella and Juan Pablo Duarte bridges.\n\nAs explained by Public Works, the closure is due to the crossing of the vessel R\/M Pelican II, which will perform maneuvers to go to the shipyard <strong>Joseph Industrial Development<\/strong>, located in the Ozama area. The institution urged citizens to plan their time and follow the instructions of the transit authorities to reduce inconveniences.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) announced that this Saturday, January 17, the Floating Bridge over the Ozama river will be temporarily closed from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., due to the passage of a vessel. During that period, vehicular traffic will be completely suspended, so the authorities recommended that drivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41848],"class_list":["post-497834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-floating-bridge"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25vA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}